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PPI names award winners
The Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) has honoured a ski resort installation and an oil transfer pipeline in its annual awards. Pipemaker Viega won the building and construc- tion award, after it installed nearly 15,000ft (5,000m) of PEX pipe – more than twice the typical amount – for a snowmelt system at Sun Valley ski resort.
The winner in the energy
piping category was Flexpipe, which supplied a 170km (105 miles) rein- forced thermoplastic pipe (RTP) pipeline to Australia, to transport light crude oil from a source location in Queensland to an oil processing facility in South Australia.
The 4in diameter pipe
was able to meet the pressure requirement of 1,500psi and temperatures of 180F (82˚C). It provided a 50% saving compared to steel pipe.
Other winners were ADS,
Southwire and Isco. ❙
www.plasticpipe.org
Wavin UK creates two dedicated plants
Plastic pipes manufacturer Wavin is to create two dedicated manufacturing facilities in the UK. The plants, in Doncaster and Chippenham, will each be used to make a different Wavin product. Doncaster will become a plumbing and heating manufacturing plant, making the company’s Hep2O flexible
plumbing brand, while Chippenham will become an above- and below-ground plastic drainage manufactur- ing plant focusing on the Wavin Osma brand. The restructuring means
that the company plant in Brandon will close.
“The planned changes to our manufacturing facilities in Doncaster and Chippenham
will simplify our supply chain and improve the service offering to our customers,” said Brent Nicholls, Wavin’s managing director for South West Europe. The proposed development
will be completed in phases, with work due to commence in 2015 and completed by mid-2016. ❙
www.wavin.com
RusVinyl plant inaugurated
The RusVinyl polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production facility in Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod), one of Russia’s largest petrochem- ical investment projects, has been inaugurated. Russian president Vladimir Putin was among those attending the opening ceremony.
Leonid Mikhelson, chair- man of Sibur’s board of directors, said: “We have increased the production capacity of ethylene in Kstovo, which guarantees the supply of the raw material to the new
PVC complex. The new facility will benefit Russia’s economic development by meeting the challenge of import substitu- tion.”
RusVinyl is a joint venture
between Sibur, Russia’s leading gas processing and petrochemical company, and SolVin, which is owned by BASF and Solvay. It was created to build a new PVC production site that could meet a significant part of domestic demand. In 2013, PVC consumption in Russia exceeded 1m tonnes, of which
only 0.6m tonnes was pro- duced locally. RusVinyl has an annual production capacity of 330,000 tonnes of PVC “Solvin’s experts from
across the globe, together with Sibur’s team, made this the most modern and environmen- tally friendly, fully-integrated PVC production plant in the world,” said Jacques van Rijckevorsel, chairman of the board of Solvin. Investment in the greenfield
project was more than RUB 60bn (€1.4bn). ❙
www.rusvinyl.ru
Polypropylene pipe approved for US airports
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the use of polypro- pylene (PP) pipe for sub-sur- face water collection and disposal at civilian airports. The decision, to recognise PP pipe as an equal alternative to other materials, was
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welcomed by pipe manufacturer Advanced Drainage Systems. “The nearly 400 commercial airports and 3,000 general aviation facilities in the US require infrastructure up- grades and expansion to meet the demand of continual increases in air travel,” said
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Greg Bohn, director of national engineering and product development at ADS. The updated standard
follows the recent approval of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe for under-pave- ment use in all airport areas including de-icing pads,
runways and taxiways. “This update to FAA policy is in line with a growing number of Departments of Transportation across the country, who have approved PP and HDPE pipe for critical infrastructure needs,” he said. ❙
www.ads-pipe.com
www.pipeandprofile.com
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